Two cranes employed to restore a bridge in the central Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn have collapsed on to buildings with rescuers searching for victims. An amateur video showed the cranes, on a pontoon on the River Rhine, trying to hoist a section of the Juliana Bridge and toppling over under the weight.

It is still not known how many people, if any, are trapped in the rubble, the town's vice-mayor said. Images on Dutch media showed a row of crushed buildings. Witness Dick van Smirren, who filmed the incident, told the NOS national broadcaster: "You see the cloud of dust arise - that is a terrible image and you think: 'Who is under there?' You can't believe what you see." De Volkskrant newspaper said a Dutch team normally used for earthquakes and other disasters had been sent to the scene.

Almost half of Russians believe that online information should be censored, 58% support complete Internet shut down in the country in case of a national threat of a possibility of mass protests, and 73% believe that negative information about civil servants should not be posted online, says a report prepared by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Studies (VTsIOM) and the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

The survey shows that 42% of Russian citizens use the Internet on a regular basis. Another 20% said that went online from time to time, up to several times a week, and 38% of Russians said they hadn't used the Internet for six months and more. Slightly over half of Russians say the Internet has a positive impact on their lives, and one-third of the respondents believe the Internet's influence is negative.

Suicide is suspected after the body of a young man was found hanged from a lamppost at the river bank in Zhil gorodok district of the city early Monday on August 3, said Gulnazira Mukhtarova, head of Internal Affairs Department press service of Atyrau Oblast.

According to the preliminary version of police officers no foul play was suspected, she said. The young man was 33-y.o. native of Zhambyl Oblast, who lived and worked at a small company in Atyrau. Expert assessment has been commissioned.

A healthy former nurse has killed herself in a Swiss euthanasia clinic because she feared developing a terminal illness and being unable to take her own life. Gill Pharaoh, 75, who did not want to become a “hobbling old lady,” was not suffering from any serious illnesses before she died on July 12 at an assisted dying clinic called Life Circle in Basel.

The mother-of-two had to flee Britain to end her life because laws in the UK do not allow assisted dying.

Two cranes fall onto houses in western Netherlands, 20 feared injured

At least 20 people are feared injured after two cranes collapsed on a housing in the western Netherlands, Dutch media reported.The incident took place in Alphen aan den Rijn, a town in the western Netherlands with a population of about 100 people.

“Spider”, “Alien”, “John Carter”, “awesome Martian space crab” – these are a few suggestions by social media users who apparently thoroughly studied a recent NASA image of Mars which captured a strange object on the surface of the red planet.

The raw image taken by NASA Curiosity somewhere in July was hugely discussed in the Facebook group ‘Journey to the Surface of the Mars’.“Now this one is AWESOME!!!”wrote the group whose slogan is“They will not tell the truth about MARS.”They even enlarged the NASAimage and so that the world could have a better look of‘the creature’.

This article, very interesting and editing by RT, we suggest to everyone to read and express own criteria on what could be possible or impossible.

Passengers at all international airports across Australia are in for major disruptions and delays in the busy Monday morning peak period as customs and immigration staff strike against the Abbott government’s plans to cut A$8,000 from workers’ pay.

Airports have urged travelers heading overseas on Monday to "come in as early as they can." The strike will hit international airports in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Cairns, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin. At the Melbourne airport, the strike kicked off at 7 a.m. and will continue until 11 a.m., with further action set to continue from 9 p.m. on Monday until 1 a.m. on Tuesday.

Dutch bank ING is offering its clients a new online banking service: customers can now make payments using their voice without entering PIN codes. Users only need to say a short phrase to access their accounts – the program will compare the voice with a file stored in the app.

“Thanks in part to the inclusion of biometric applications, we are able to make banking faster, smoother and easier for our customers and improve access,” said Jeroen Losekoot, Internet & mobile marketing manager at ING, as cited by the Daily Mail.